It’s not in their ad but Randalls has strawberries for 97c/1 lb pkg.That’s a good deal!
And of course you know berries freeze well because you’ve been living on smoothies because it’s 3rd ring of hell hot, right? Just cut the tops off and throw them in a freezer bag, it’ll be grand.
Even if you’re not usually a Randalls shopper, between this and the 88c cheese it’s worth a stop.
It’s hot. Half the tabs I have open in Chrome are cocktail recipes, because it’s too hot to cook. I’m hiding inside and only leave if there’s a promise of icy beverages involved. Welcome, Summer!
My kids are living on fruit and sandwiches, and they’re lucky there’s a lot of fruit on sale. Peaches, cantaloupes and cherries are all on sales this week. Large mangos are on sale everywhere, but they’re cheapest at Randalls, at 50c/ea.
If you’re grilling (please don’t turn the oven on. it’s too hot. don’t even look at the stove. the wok? seriously, you’re asking about the wok? fine, wok away, chucklehead.) pork roast, pork chops and chicken leg quarters are all cheep.
If you want a certain kind, you might have to visit a few times!
SPECIAL BUY: Randalls has 88c/ 8oz pkgs of block, slices or shredded cheese. That’s the cheapest price per pound since Sprouts stopped doing their $1.99/lb bulk cuts of one kind of cheese per week,so STOCK UP. Cheese freezes well! The blocks will become a bit crumbly, but still taste fine.
Here’s the list, happy shopping!
Fiesta
cherries $1.77/lb
salad tomatoes 69c/lb
Persian lime 15/$1
Fiesta large eggs, dozen 99c/ea
beef sirloin tip steak, 3lbs or more $2.47/lb
pork loin chops, 4lbs or more $1.67/lb
chicken leg quarters, 10lbs or more 44c/lb
Fiesta long grain rice, 4lb bag $1.50/ea
Two spellings? Check. Comparing two units? Check. You stay you, Fiesta!
Sprouts
cantaloupes 88c/ea
organic red or green grapes $1.98/lb
Blue Diamond Nut-Thins $1.50/ea
bulk quinoa $1.99/ea
HEB
large peaches 77c/lb
corn on the cob 20c/ea
boneless pork loin $1.97/lb
ground chuck, 80%, club pack $2.97/lb
Randalls
pork loin chops, bone-in, value pack $1.69/lb
Lucerne sliced, block or shredded cheese, 8oz 88c/ea (buy 5 or more)
large mangos 50c/ea
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I know, it’s health code, smart, and sensible, it still cracks me up.
On the side of an employee deli entrance at an HEB :
It’s Friday already, we’ve all got tubes to float, explosives to explode, meat to grill and jokes involving the word ‘exit’ to make. So I’ll save the banter and just get to the list. Happy shopping, Cheepsters!
Highlights: corn, blueberries (super stock up price!), mangos, & split chicken breasts.
Randalls
ground beef, 80/20 $1.99/lb (limit 4 pkgs)
boneless skinless chicken breast $1.88/lb
raspberries, 6oz $1.50/ea
Eckrich bulk rope sausage, 36-42oz $5/ea
pork spare ribs or babyback ribs $2.49/lb (Fri-Mon ONLY)
cantaloupes $1.50/ea (Fri-Mon ONLY)
Fiesta
Persian limes 15/$1
seedless watermelons $2.99/ea
beef skirt steak, family pack $3.87/lb
boneless skinless chix breast or thighs $1.37/lb (4lbs or more)
Blue Bell, half gallon, all varieties $3.99/ea (Fiesta limit)
Follows the Gringo Dad Rule for Spanish: add an ‘o’ at the end.
Sprouts
red mangos 33c/ea
red cherries $1.88/lb
nectarines or peaches 88c/ea
bulk cut mild cheddar $2.99/lb
HEB
corn 8/$1
blueberries, pint 97c/ea
Ataulfo mangos 33c/ea
HCF split chicken breasts, value pack $1/lb
boneless pork loin roast $1.97/lb
Eckrich smoke sausage, 3-42oz $5/ea
Wheatsville
seedless watermelons $2.99/ea
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Pasta is something we eat a lot more of during the summer at Chez Cheepie. Given I hate to turn the oven on at all, and Mr. Cheepie owns the grill, I find it’s simplest to cook things that are quick on the stove: stir-frys and pastas get heavy rotation during the warm months.
I’ve got an old Atlas pasta roller (thank you wedding registry of the 1990s), which makes homemade pasta simple. There are a lot of recipes that will tell you you don’t have to have one, you can just roll it out by hand. Those people have more skills than me. And more upper body strength. Neither of those is hard to accomplish, but if you’re like me keep an eye out at thrift stores and you’ll find a machine for about $25. Or you could get married, and register for one, but that comes with a lot more compromise than Savers demands of its customers.
Breakdown of cost for batch of pasta:
5lbs flour=$1.99
18 eggs= $ 1.69
2 c flour 20 cents
3 eggs 28.2 cents
So for under 50c, I’ve got a tasty batch of pasta that is plenty for 5 sides. It could also be a main dish if you added some random leftover meats & vegetables and gave it a toss with some oil and garlic over some heat.
Yes, it’s work. But these kids have to do something and they’ve started to notice that Pick Up This Crap is not as exciting of a game as I’ve made it out to be. Especially when you get to the upper levels. Rolling out pasta on the machine is like edible play-doh happy hour!
Given I use this method, using a food processor, it all comes together pretty quickly. Whirl up dough and knead for about a minute. Then the dough rests for 30 min, which is helpfully enough time for you to figure out what else your band of heathens deserve for dinner. Then put a pot of water on to boil, roll out the noodles, and get them cooked.
Yes, you can buy noodles for twice the cost and they’re still cheap. Yes, time is money. If you’ve got some time, though, it’s a fun frugal way to make delicious pasta.
Corn! I love cheap corn. Eventually it’ll get cheaper, but 6/$1 is worth celebrating a bit. Corn is also simple to freeze, just slice kernels off and put in a ziplock for later.
Other cheap produce highlights this week are: cherries, bell peppers, oranges and mangos.
Randalls has cheap boneless skinless chicken breasts and ground beef this week, so if your freezer is low on either it’s a good chance to stock up.
Both Sprouts and Randalls have sub-sales for a portion of the week. The ad for Sprouts says ’72 Hour sale’ ‘June 17-June 19’and ‘Seize the Savings this Thursday and Friday’. What’s impressive about that is not even two of those things can be true at the same time.
I called Sprouts and they’re going to honor the prices from Thursday-Sunday, so it’s a win for us. Happy shopping, Cheepsters!
Sprouts
cherries $1.98/lb
red bell peppers 50c/ea
cantaloupes 98c/ea
organic red or green grapes $1.98/lb
sunflower seed kernels $1.99/lb
Gala or Granny Smith apples 98c/lb
colby-jack cheese, bulk cut $2.98/lb
Thurs-Sunday ONLY
jumbo navel oranges 25c/lb
red mangos 25c/ea
thick slicked bulk bacon $2.99/lb
raw almonds $3.99/lb
quinoa $1.99/lb
Fiesta
Persian limes 15/ $1
pork spare ribs, family pack $2.47/lb
chicken drums, jumbo bag, (10lb & up) 59c/lb
Randalls
spare ribs or baby back ribs $2.49/lb
ground beef, 80%, value pack $2.49/lb
bscb $1.88/lb
Safeway sugar, 4lbs $1.99/ea
Safeway flour, 5lbs $1.99/ea
Fri-Sun only:
seedless watermelon $2.97/ea
Blue Bell $3.99/ea (must buy 2 or more)
HEB
corn 6/$1
sweet potatoes 68c/lb
Lastly, Fiesta flyers remain the most entertaining:
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It’s been a damn month, I know. Blame Prop 1 fatigue and fear of I35 rock throwers, that’s what I say. Mopacalypse, that too. And snake migration, don’t forget that. How anyone in Austin is continuing to function is a mystery to me.
To cheer you this week we’ve got peaches, watermelon, mangos, & red bell peppers at low prices. Corn is coming, but this week I only see 3/$1 at HEB, and it’ll be cheaper soon. If you spot it lower, let me know!
Because 
we’re just past a big BBQ weekend there’s a lull on good meat sales, but as we get closer to July 4th they’ll be back. For now chicken and pork loin are cheep at Randalls this week.
Here’s the list:
HEB
peaches 57c/lb (7c cheaper at Sprouts, but still cheep!)
hot house cucumbers 98c/ea
Gala apples 98c/lb
small mangos 48c/ea (possibly grackle HEBs only)
Hass avocados 48c/ea
Ground chuck, 80% chub pack $2.97/lb
Sprouts
whole seedless watermelon $1.98/ea
red or green bell peppers 50c/ea
yellow peaches 50c/lb
red or yellow mangos 50c/ea
Granny Smith or Pink Lady apples 98c/lb
Thompson Seedless raisins $1.99/lb
Fiesta
green seedless grapes $1.49/lb
green bell peppers 33c/ea
boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs $1.37/lb (Fiesta limit)(family pack)
chicken drumsticks, jumbo bag 77c/lb
Goya Jasmine rice, 5lbs $5.99/lb
Fiesta brand all-purpose flour, 5lbs 99c/ea (limit 1)
Randalls
split chicken breast, drums or thighs, value pack 88c/lb
(drums 11c cheaper at Fiesta, but it’s twice the weight)
whole bone-in pork loin 99c/lb
Skinner pasta, 12oz, selected varieties 49c/ea (buy 5, mix & match)
Lucerne eggs, dozen 89c/ea (buy 2, limit 4)
Weekly Flyer Links:
General Mills has a recall of several package types of flour. FLOUR. I’d thought flour would be pretty immune from a contamination problem, if I’d pondered it at all.
Here’s a link to a informative article. Here’s the link to General Mills if you find you’ve got some of the flour.
Ten million pounds of flour, 20 states with connected cases of E. coli illness.
Be safe! Throw it out! Being sick is not cheep!
Mothers Day is for Meat, apparently. Steaks are on sale all over town. I didn’t see any great deals on prime, so choose your favorite cut and pick a store, it’s probably on sale.
HEB has their chicken fajitas (breast or thigh) for $1.97/lb, and the club pack 80% ground chuck for 2.77/lb. These are near-permanent prices, so I’m deciding not to list them all the time.
Highlights this week: mangos, avocados, strawberries, bacon and Oak Farms ice cream.
Happy shopping, Cheepsters!
Sprouts
avocados 33c/ea
green bell peppers 50c/ea
celery 88c/ea
Honeycrisp apples $1.98/lb
bulk oats 50c/lb
bulk organic coffee $6.99/lb
Brown Cow yogurt cups 69c/ea
HEB
strawberries, 1lb 98c/ea
corn 20c/ea
small mangos 33c/ea
pork loin roast $1.99/lb
HEB or Honeysuckle ground turkey, 1lb $1.97/ea (more grackle only)
HCF vegetable oil, 128oz $5/ea (more grackle only)
Our American Favorite Chicken Nuggets, 2lb bag frozen $2.97/ea
Free Clamato? Combo Loco, indeed.
Randalls
Red Delicious apples 99c/lb
pork loin chops, bone-in, value pack $1.79/lb
Safeway bacon, 3lbs $8.97/ea
Fiesta
cucumber 33c/ea
green cabbage 39c/lb
cilantro 33c/ea
seedless watermelons $2.99/ea
Ataulfo mangos 25c/ea
strip or top sirloin steak, family pack $3.97/lb (Fiesta limit)
boneless skinless chicken breast or thigh $1.49/lb (Fiesta limit)
boneless half pork loin, cy-o-vac pack $1.49/lb (Fiesta limit)
live crawfish $1.99/lb (30c off for whole sack)
Oak Farms ice cream, 1/2 gal $3.99/ea
Central Market
organic green pears $1.27/lb
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There’s a recall of a huge number of brands of frozen foods for a lot of different stores. Brands I recognize are at Fiesta, Target, Walmart, and Randalls. I’m sure there are others.
Click to read the list. There are a lot of larger sizes (30lbs of frozen corn is a lotta corn), but there are also many in the 10-16oz size I know I’ve got in my freezer. Dammit.
Here’s the list of types of products:
That’s pretty much all the kinds of frozen stuff except mangos, right? You go, mango!
The risk is a listeria contamination. It’s the same as the Blue Bell problem, and it is a risk mostly for the young, old, or immunocompromised. Given I did eventually toss my hoarded Blue Bell, I’ll certainly be checking my freezer and chucking any $1 bags of veggies.
From the link:
I think they need better copywriters. I’m an expert, because I have a blog and use the word ‘lotta’ correctly, and I’m pretty sure that first and third sentences need a ‘The’ to start ’em up.
I also think that it’s weird to note Listeria was not the cause of death. I get it, maybe they were already sick, and the Listeria made that get worse faster, and they really died of what they already had. But when it comes down to it, we all die because our heart stops, whatever else is going on, and the Listeria was present and a factor. Unless they cured the Listeria completely, and then the person died? Does that happen?
I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader, because it’s a nice day out and I’m going to throw out some frozen food and then go sit in the sun and read my book.
Stay safe, Cheepsters!
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